Since ancient times, human beings have fantasized about escaping from gravity, hoping to soar above the ground like gods and travel freely between the universes. Artist Chestnut skillfully uses scientific and technological means to realize this long-standing good wish of human beings in the form of art.
On March 6th, the first Chinese exhibition of "Artemis Kiss" maglev installation art by lizi, a well-known Chinese contemporary artist, was unveiled at Beijing Lufthansa Friendship Mall. On the opening day, many guests gathered at the scene to witness a cross-border and integration of art and technology, mythology, philosophy, aesthetics, fashion and other fields.
The magnetic levitation art installation is called "The Kiss of Artemis", which is based on an ancient Greek mythological story as the background, the story tells the poignant love story between the moon goddess Artemis in ancient Greek mythology and a shepherd teenager, the artist integrates his imagination and interpretation of this story into the creation, the main image of the work is a pair of kissing men and women covered with blue, suspended on a white square stone pillar engraved with Greek, when the two main images are suspended in the air, It's like magic with a sense of mystery.
Maglev art installation "Kiss of Artemis"
Lufthansa exhibition hall site
Linking classical mythology with contemporary society, the collision between Klein blue and special materials is like the dust in the vast universe converging into one energy.
In this Lufthansa Art Season, the "Stoic School" series of chestnut sculptures, the interactive installation "Babylonian Garden" of art perfumes, and the prints "Prometheus" and "160 decibels" series are also exhibited.
Showroom scene
In the "Stoics" series, Chestnut deconstructs the images of ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, Andyurus, and the broken limbs can no longer be identified, but they can be faintly recognized through the remaining gestures of sculpture, such as "Plato" with fingers to the sky, "Aristotle" with fingers to the ground, and "Diogenes" with skinny bones, and "Marco Aurelius" with a complete head, etc., these fragments are intentional by the artist, "Stoic School" It represents not only a philosophical wisdom, but also an attitude of the artist. The artistic perfume derived from the four images in the "Stoic School" also integrates the artist's philosophical thinking and the spiritual interpretation of the "Stoic School" into the fragrance, completing a perfect fusion of sight and smell.
Art Perfume Interactive Installation "Babylon Garden"
The art interactive perfume installation "The Garden of Babylon" was inspired by the story of a garden built by King Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Kingdom to please his concubine Semiramis (Princess of Persia). The artist uses the "Babylon Garden" to define the taste of two lovers, pure love. In this small and dark box (installation), an oil painting painted with roses is placed, the installation is covered with perfume bottles, driven by the sound device, with the ups and downs, the rhythm of the music or sound, the installation will change different colors, flashing colorful dazzling light and shadow, as if oil paintings and perfume bottles are beating, in this work, the artist will be smell, painting, sound, light and shadow, etc. into one, forming a wonderful dialogue across time and space. Chestnut applied the inspiration for the "Babylon Garden" to the blending of perfumes, and a perfume that defined the taste of pure love was born.
"160 dB" is the representative work of chestnuts, in which the image of the lion and tiger is used in the art scarf series of clothing brand LY ART LAB, jointly produced by Chestnut and fashion designer Liu Ruowei.
Group photo of the guests at the opening ceremony
In addition to the art exhibition, in the activities of this Lufthansa Art Season, the "Secret Garden" Chinese and English poetry recitation party, the art perfume salon, the M's room x art blind box market, the sculpture art graffiti workshop, as well as the Lufthansa magic room, the remodeling runway, the street photography moment and many other wonderful activities were unveiled. At the same time, Chestnut's eponymous brand art perfume and clothing brand also made its debut. The exhibition will run until March 31.